Atheist and gay, Frerick the Great was more radil than most lears today | The Spectator Atralia

Contents:

• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
• HOW A GAY PSSIAN WHO SPOKE NO ENGLISH BEME A HERO OF THE AMERIN REVOLUTN
• HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERALWAR IS BORG·FOLLOWPUBLISHED WAR IS BORG·8 M READ·MAR 9, 2014--1LISTENSHARENO, NOT ALEXANR THE GREAT—FRERICK THE GREAT
• THE GAY PSSIAN BARON WHO CREATED THE U.S. ARMY — MARKET MAD HOEDANIEL G. JENNGS·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·7 M READ·JUL 5, 2020--SHARESTRANGELY, MANY HISTORIANS REGARD A GAY PSSIAN BARON; AND NOT GEE WASHGTON, AS THE FATHER OF THE UNED STAT ARMY.TO EXPLA, FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STBEN; A PSSIAN MERCENARY CREATED THE FIRST SETS OF L, REGULATNS, AND PROCR FOR THE CONTENTAL ARMY DURG THE REVOLUTNARY WAR. THE CONTENTAL ARMY WAS THE FIRST UNED STAT ARMY.BIZARRELY, VON STBEN; AN ARISTOCRAT AND A PUPIL OF FRERICK THE GREAT, CREATED THE BLUEPRT FOR A MOCRATIC FIGHTG FORCE. MOREOVER, VON STBEN DID NOT BELIEVE MOCRACY, ALTHOUGH HE BEME AN AMERIN PATRT. INSTEAD, BARON STBEN HELPED WASHGTON W THE REVOLUTN BEE HE NEED A JOB.THE UNEMPLOYED BARON WHO HELPED WASHGTON W THE REVOLUTN
• FRIEDRICH VON STBEN: THE OPENLY GAY WAR HERO WHO WHIPPED THE CONTENTAL ARMY INTO SHAPE
• ATHEIST AND GAY, FRERICK THE GREAT WAS MORE RADIL THAN MOST LEARS TODAY

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially. (The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri.

The liph’s sexualy has been the source of some bate: Acrdg to the French medievalist Évariste Lévi-Provençal, the phrase “hubb al-walad, ” found 16th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari’s pendium "Nafh at-Tib" reference to Al-Hakam II, translat as a “preference for boys, ” though other scholars mata refers to paternal Medieval Europe scholar Francis Prado-Vilar wrote that knowledge of Al-Hakam’s homosexualy the urt of Córdoba “enuraged the ambns of the factns gathered around his much younger brother, Prce al-Mughira. ”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa. Young as “​​the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd.

)“To the shock of many urtiers, the pair were monstratively affectnate to each other public, spe Jam’ var proclamatns agast homosexualy, ” Daniel Smh wrote “Love Letters of Kgs and Queens. Frerick the Great of Pssia (1712 - 1786)Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his years after the kg’s ath, his physician Johann Ge Rter von Zimmermann published a book which he sperately tried to dispel gossip Frerick had a “Grecian taste love. And rather than let that secret out, Frerick pretend to be gay, “so that he would ntue to appear virile and pable of sexual terurse, albe wh men.

HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL

But he did ltle to obscure his sexualy: Sanssouci, his palace Potsdam, was filled wh homoerotic art and, across Europe, “l Potsdamists” beme slang for kg allegedly pursued the Veian philosopher Franc Algarotti and even famed French philosopher Voltaire, who lived wh him at Sanssouci, though ’s not certa if eher relatnship was Voltaire’s ath 1778, a mancript of his memoir tailg Frerick’s homosexual tennci tail was stolen and published the Netherlands. ”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported.

Gay men have always been part of the Amerin ary. In an era before gay marriage or open pri, ary men fell love, formed passnate iendships and had same-sex enunters. But the se of one of the ary’s foundg hero, homosexualy was always part of the story.

Historians also thk he was homosexual—and served as an openly gay man the ary at a time when sex between men was punished as a crime. He also downplayed mors that the baron had been dismissed om the Pssian ary for homosexualy.

HOW A GAY PSSIAN WHO SPOKE NO ENGLISH BEME A HERO OF THE AMERIN REVOLUTN

But he was gay, and homosexualy was viewed as a crimal aberratn by many of his peers. ”After the war, von Stben legally adopted both men—a mon practice among gay men an age before same-sex marriage was legal. John Mulligan, who was also gay, served as von Stben’s secretary and is thought to have had a relatnship wh the baron.

HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERALWAR IS BORG·FOLLOWPUBLISHED WAR IS BORG·8 M READ·MAR 9, 2014--1LISTENSHARENO, NOT ALEXANR THE GREAT—FRERICK THE GREAT

Durg von Stben’s lifetime, the ncept of gay marriage, gay pri or g out was unthkable and there was no language or open culture of homosexualy. But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri. He entertaed a succsn of gay lovers and spent lns on fairytale stl and lavish works of art.

THE GAY PSSIAN BARON WHO CREATED THE U.S. ARMY — MARKET MAD HOEDANIEL G. JENNGS·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·7 M READ·JUL 5, 2020--SHARESTRANGELY, MANY HISTORIANS REGARD A GAY PSSIAN BARON; AND NOT GEE WASHGTON, AS THE FATHER OF THE UNED STAT ARMY.TO EXPLA, FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STBEN; A PSSIAN MERCENARY CREATED THE FIRST SETS OF L, REGULATNS, AND PROCR FOR THE CONTENTAL ARMY DURG THE REVOLUTNARY WAR. THE CONTENTAL ARMY WAS THE FIRST UNED STAT ARMY.BIZARRELY, VON STBEN; AN ARISTOCRAT AND A PUPIL OF FRERICK THE GREAT, CREATED THE BLUEPRT FOR A MOCRATIC FIGHTG FORCE. MOREOVER, VON STBEN DID NOT BELIEVE MOCRACY, ALTHOUGH HE BEME AN AMERIN PATRT. INSTEAD, BARON STBEN HELPED WASHGTON W THE REVOLUTN BEE HE NEED A JOB.THE UNEMPLOYED BARON WHO HELPED WASHGTON W THE REVOLUTN

He Was Gay. The entri, along wh a number of private letters, poted to one jarrg tth: Kg Ludwig II was gay. Although the kg was secretly gay, he had no choice but to marry—and this particular hurdle beme all the more prsg 1867.

He was an famo disciplarian, a thls manr, and a ary was the symbol of Pssian masculy and arism, and he was also most likely gay.

Homosexualy is nate — at least is for me — but the social nceptn of what beg gay means has varied over we e the word "orientatn" today, 18th-century wrers would ll a "taste.

FRIEDRICH VON STBEN: THE OPENLY GAY WAR HERO WHO WHIPPED THE CONTENTAL ARMY INTO SHAPE

It was so wily known, the late historian Louis Crompton wrote his book Homosexualy and Civilizatn, that historians had trouble rencilg Frerick's sexualy wh his greatns.

ATHEIST AND GAY, FRERICK THE GREAT WAS MORE RADIL THAN MOST LEARS TODAY

Several bgraphi have more than a whiff of his haggraphy of the kg, historian Thomas Carlyle rejected assertns that Frerick was gay as a "thrice-abomable mor" spread by those wh a "solacement to human malice and impertent cursy.